Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mort Walker

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Mignon McLaughlin

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

John Ruskin

All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy.

John Ruskin

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

John Ruskin

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

Steve Alford

I couldn't be more happy or pleased for our seniors to go out this way.

I could be happy here. I really can.

Louise Hay

I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

Loudon Wainwright III

After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Mao Zedong

The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves, the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through, we all laugh. October 1935

Madeleine L'Engle

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

Louisa May Alcott

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Louisa May Alcott

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Louisa May Alcott

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

John Gay

How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!

John F. Kennedy

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

Jonathan Haidt

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

Jonathan Haidt

Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.

Jon Tester

I really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a lot of people that - sexual orientation is such where they're in love with people from the same sex, and I just don't think it's our role in the government to say, 'No you can't be married.

Jon Stewart

As long as I don't end up hosting a skin care commercial with Cher, I'm happy.

Jim Rohn

Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.

Jim Rohn

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

Jim Rohn

Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

Jim Rohn

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

Jim Rohn

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

George Leigh Mallory

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

Elvis Presley

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person....

Ellen Hopkins

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.